‘The Crown’ Just Got a Release Date...Plus Everything Else We Know About Season 3

Netflix announced that season three ofThe Crownwill premiere on November 17, so clear your schedules, ladies and gents.

Season onetakes place in the late ’40s and early ’50s, andseason twotakes place in the ’50s and early ’60s. Season three willreportedlycenter on the years 1964 to 1976.

With each season taking place in a different time period, this was bound to happen, but it doesn’t make it any easier. Our belovedFoywill hang up her crown as Queen Elizabeth and pass the scepter to British actressOlivia Colman(Broadchurch) for seasons three and four.

The rebellious Princess Margaret will no longer be portrayed by Vanessa Kirby. Instead,Helena Bonham Carterwill step in. And Prince Philip?Tobias Menzieswill replace Smith.

Josh O’Connor (Florence Foster Jenkins) and Marion Bailey (Allied) will take on the roles ofPrince Charles and the Queen Mother, respectively. The actors will replace Julian Baring and Victoria Hamilton, who played their respective roles in seasons one and two.

The CrownproducersconfirmedPennyworth's Emma Corin will portray the late Princess Diana in season three. While the Lady Diana Spencer character will only have a minor part in the third season, it's reported that the princess will play a major role in the fourth (as well as the unconfirmed fifth season).

一个除了我们最兴奋的佛r, though, isSex Education'sGillian Andersonas "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher. Anderson will play the late Baroness as she navigates politics and eventually becomes the longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office.

In addition toPrincess Anne, who we mentioned previously will be portrayed by Doherty, there will be also be a Camilla Parker Bowles character who will be played byCall the Midwife'sEmerald Fennell.

“I’m absolutely over the moon, and completely terrified, to be joining so many hugely talented people onThe Crown,” Fennell toldTVLine. “I absolutely love Camilla and am very grateful that my teenage years have well prepared me for playing a chain-smoking serial snogger with a pudding bowl haircut.”

Worth the wait? Absolutely, my dear.